The Right to Write Badly

AUTHOR(S)

Howe, Irving

PUB. DATE

April 2002

SOURCE

New Republic;4/29/2002, Vol. 226 Issue 16, p28

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Presents an essay on literary craftsman Isaac Babel which was written from 1989 to 1990. Family background of Babel; Impact the Jewish upbringing of Babel have had on his work; Popularity in the generation of modernist Russian writers during the middle of the 1920s; Reason behind the claim that Babel is drawn to violence.

A profile of Russian writer of short stories and plays Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel is presented. Information on his birth, birthplace, educational background, and family background is presented. Description of his writing style is discussed. Some of his works include the short story "Odeskiye...

The article presents an analysis on the relationship of writer Isaac Babel to his forebear Nikolai Gogol. The author weighs the claims of Babel regarding the nature and influence of Gogol on his writings which were indicated in one of his sketches titled "Odessa." According to the author, the...

The article features Russian-Jewish writer Vasily Grossman and his relationship with contemporaries, Isaak Babel and Andrey Platonov. According to the author, Grossman's "In the Town of Berdichev" owes a lot to Babel since the essay, like Babel's stories in "Red Cavalry," is set at the time of...

The article discloses significance of the paradigm of solar images and motifs in Â«KonarmiaÂ» by I. E.Babel. Sun is the centre of neo-mythological apocalypse conception which is compared with Odessa solar paradise. Both Odessa's and konarmia's cycles are connected by the discourse on...

The article focuses on the short stories of well-known litterateur Isaak Babel. The short story has on innumerable occasions served as a vehicle for the author's expression of aesthetic values and provided the forum for a discussion of the relationship between personal or erotic experience and...

The article presents an essay on Soviet author Isaac Babel. Babel was born in 1894 in a neighborhood of Odessa called the Moldavanka, which he wrote about in his stories. The author offers insights into Babel's personal life and relationships and discusses "Red Cavalry," Babel's collection of...